About thresholds -- The eye in the text : French poetry from Reverdy to Jabès -- Gesture, gaze, and mirror : from designation to contemplation, mannerist, metaphysical, and surrealist -- Look and gesture -- Reflections in a Rococo eye : arabesques and serpentines -- Outlook and inscape in Dada and Surrealism -- The annuniciation of the text : Rilke and the birth of the poem -- Brancusi and Mallarmé, or, about an egg -- Dada's temper, our text : knights of the double self -- Mallarmé and Duchamp : mirror, stair, and gaming table -- Baroque lighting in René Char -- The art of André Malraux -- For a cinema of the central eye : Saint-Pol-Roux to spatialism -- Dwelling on the threshold
